Mandate the CERN for AI to build safe superintelligence

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  Tim Berners-Lee

  Inventor of the World Wide Web

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  I would like to see a CERN for AI [...] where all the top scientists come together and see whether they can make a super intelligence. And, if they can, they contain it into a system where it can't just go out and persuade people to let it run the wo...

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  Demis Hassabis

  Nobel laureate, AI Researcher and CEO of DeepMind

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  I would advocate for a kind of CERN for AGI, and by that, I mean a kind of international research-focused high-end collaboration on the frontiers of AGI development to try and make that as safe as possible. You would also have to pair it with a kind...

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  Miles Brundage

  AI policy researcher; founder of AVERI (AI Verification Initiative); former OpenAI Head of Policy Research

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  In my (currently) preferred version of a CERN for AI, an initially small but steadily growing coalition of companies and countries would: * Collaborate on designing and building highly secure chips and datacenters; * Collaborate on accelerating ...

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  OpenAI

  AI research organization

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  votes For and says:

  First, we need some degree of coordination among the leading development efforts to ensure that the development of superintelligence occurs in a manner that allows us to both maintain safety and help smooth integration of these systems with society. ...

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  Ian Hogarth

  UK AI Safety Institute chair

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  A thought experiment for regulating AI in two distinct regimes is what I call The Island. In this scenario, experts trying to build God-like AGI systems do so in a highly secure facility: an air-gapped enclosure with the best security humans can buil...

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  Nick Bostrom

  Philosopher; 'Superintelligence' author; FHI founder

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  The ethical issues related to the possible future creation of machines with general intellectual capabilities far outstripping those of humans are quite distinct from any ethical problems arising in current automation and information systems. Such su...

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  Lord Fairfax of Cameron

  Scottish hereditary peer; Conservative member of the UK House of Lords; AI safety advocate

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  votes Against and says:

  In the face of these threats, I urge the Government to take the following steps: first, to publicly recognise that superintelligence poses an extinction threat to humanity; secondly, for the UK to prevent the development of superintelligence on its s...

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  Guido Reichstadter

  Marine veteran turned anti-AI activist; co-founder of Stop AI; known for hunger strikes at Anthropic and bridge protests in DC against AGI development

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  I call on the governments of the world to take immediate action to end this danger by permanently banning the development of artificial general intelligence and machine superintelligence.

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  ControlAI

  Campaign to prohibit superintelligence development

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  votes Against and says:

  prevent the development of artificial superintelligence and keep humanity in control. [...] inform every relevant person in the democratic process [...]

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  Johnnie Moore

  American evangelical leader and businessman, founder of The Kairos Company and chairman of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation

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  votes Against and says:

  We should rapidly develop powerful AI tools that help cure diseases and solve practical problems, but not autonomous smarter-than-human machines that nobody knows how to control. Creating superintelligent machines is not only unacceptably dangerous a...

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  Stephen Fry

  British writer, comedian and actor

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  votes Against and says:

  To get the most from what AI has to offer mankind, there is simply no need to reach for the unknowable and highly risky goal of superintelligence, which is by far a frontier too far. By definition this would result in a power that we could neither un...

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  Nate Soares

  AI safety researcher; MIRI president

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  votes Against and says:

  If we build it using anything remotely like modern methods, on anything remotely like the current understanding or lack of understanding that we have about AI, then yeah, building it anytime soon would be a death sentence. [...] When you're in a car ...

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  Anthony Aguirre

  Physicist; Future of Life cofounder

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  votes Against and says:

  We don't have to do this. We have human-competitive AI, and there's no need to build AI with which we can't compete. We can build amazing AI tools without building a successor species. The notion that AGI and superintelligence are inevitable is a cho...

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  Luciano Floridi

  Philosopher of information; ethicist

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  votes Against and says:

  Eu não assinei essa carta por quatro razões. Primeiramente, é inútil, porque chega atrasada. [...] A segunda razão é que seus fundamentos parecem mais com o que eu considero ficção científica: ela usa como base uma descrição genérica do que seja a in...

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  Timnit Gebru

  AI ethics researcher; DAIR founder

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  votes Against and says:

  Trying to ‘build’ AGI is an inherently unsafe practice. Build well-scoped, well-defined systems instead. Don’t attempt to build a God.

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  Emily M. Bender

  Linguist; AI critic

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  votes Against and says:

  Treating speculative “superintelligence” as the policy target and proposing to freeze development until there’s public buy‑in and scientific consensus distracts from the actual, present‑day harms of AI systems. These systems are already amplifying di...

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